Detective Branch has held five former students of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST).
“The detainees are being brought to Sylhet. What are the allegations against them could be learned once they are handed over,” Sylhet Metropolitan Police commissioner Nisharul Arif told media.
Among the arrestees two have been identified as Habibur Rahman Swapan and Reza Nur Muin, two former students of the university from Computer Science and Engineering and Architecture departments respectively.
Swapan works at a US-based farm while Reza works at a renowned industrial factory in the country as an architect. The identity of other detainees could not be known immediately.
On 13 January, a group of SUST resident students began demonstrating, alleging that their provost, Zafrin Ahmed Liza, misbehaved with a student who called her to report bad food and other issues.
On 16 January, police charged batons, lobbed tear shell canisters, fired rubber bullets and threw stun grenades on the agitating students that left over 30 pupils injured. The police action turned the student protest into an-anti VC one as protesters went on a fast-unto-death programme.
Police filed a case against 300 students. The university authority closed down all classes and residential halls but students still continued their protests.
